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100 Years Ago – 1918: Hundreds of Chesterites went to Atlantic City today to witness the big parade of Elks which is the crowning features of the week’s convention at the seashore resort. Many motored to the shore, while large contingent were transported on a special train that left here shortly after 7 o’clock. It is expected that 150 local Elks will participate in the parade which gives every indication of being the largest ever held in Atlantic City.
75 Years Ago – 1943: The Rev. Dr. William Barrow Pugh of Wallingford, new chairman of the General Commission in Army and Navy Chaplains, will continue the global tour of his predecessor, Bishop Adna L. Leonard, who died in a plane crash on May 3 in Iceland. He will start in August to visit chaplains and servicemen in North Africa, the Middle East, India and China, and probably the southwest Pacific theatre.
50 Years Ago – 1968: The Greater Chester Movement Neighborhood Youth Corps has received a $70,000 federal Department of Labor grant, enabling it to accept 200 additional youths for its summer program. NYC offered jobs last year to 550 youths, aged 16 to 21. It was forced this year to reduce the number of participants to 100 because of funding cutbacks.
25 Years Ago – 1993: Chalk one up for the people of St. Hedwig’s — they finally got an audience with Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua. They have baited the cardinal for months with newspaper ads, a letter to the pope, cartoons and protests, asking and then daring him to hear why their Polish parish never should have been included in the plan to merge six parishes into one. “This was the first positive gesture of the entire merger plan,” said Michael Blichasz, president of the Polish American Congress, Eastern Pennsylvania District.
10 Years Ago – 2008: Groundbreaking for the River Place Homes/ Phase III project has been scheduled at the project site on Delaware Avenue and Church Street in Marcus Hook, culminating a three-phased planned development intended to encourage expanded home ownership through the sale of newly constructed, single-family houses across from Market Square Memorial Park. The revitalization of the riverfront neighborhood in Marcus Hook has as its roots the adoption of the Market Square Redevelopment Plan in 1985.